Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-27

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ostracize offending negrocs--drive them
ont Of the community.
A gentleman of this city whose at
tentien has been called to the subject
OF this article has handed to us o copy
Of the New York Evening Post Of last
Friday, in which the facts set forth by
Us heretofore on this point are supple
monted by others teaching the same
lesson. After abiding to the defeat Of
the GLENN bill in Georgia, and saying
that if the question had come to an
issue when 1t was originally brought up
Republican organs in the North would
have been able to make a strong point
Of the bitterness of race prejudice which
it showed TO exist in the South, the
Post adds
"But recent occurrences in the North
have effectually spiked their guns.
Oxford Ohio is a town of Butler
county conspicuous for its educational
institutions, containing Miami Univer-
sity, Oxford Female College, and the
Western Female Seminary. Its colored
population is small, the whole number
Of negroes in Butler county, according
TO the census of 1880, being only |, 40,
against fl 49, whites. In short, it is
Just the sort of northern town that has
always been filled with Indignation over
any exhibition Of race prejudice in the
South. Put when the time came for
opening the fall term of the public
schools, and it was discovered that col
ored children were to be seated beside
white children III Oxford, the public,
without distinction to party, rcbelled.
A meeting, attended by about four
hundred white men, was held last week.
and by an almost unanimous vote
instructed the Board of Education to
withdraw the colored children from the
building attended by the white chill
dren, q leading banker agreeing to
stand between the board and harm in
thus violating the law The board
thereupOn held a meeting and unani-
mously resolved that in compliance
with the above request the superinten-
dent be and is hereby instructed to as
sign the colored children to the north
building tomorrow.
"On tuesday evening another large
Unattended public meeting was held to
express the popular satisfaction over
the action OF the bo&rd The Cone
mcrci0E GdzcUe thus describes the
gathering: Quite "a number of colored
g., l..n ttrar t.l
with cries of 'Lats, Take him out,
Ct.
Gin calling the meeting to order the
chairman ask, the boys to be as quiet
as possible, that while they had cause
to feel iubilant they could at tle p.oper
:.me give vent H. their feelings The
banker who bad engaged to defend the
>cLOol EOard made a speech IN which
he said he colored people have the
night OF suffrage. More than this they
cannot expect As for their social
qualifcat.Ous, there arr few OF us here
ready Tor that question. Another
speaSor expressed himself highly salts
fed to know that the children had been
driven from the schools The COM
mcrci0L G05'uc'S report concludes rs
follows: Joshua Fry, an. ex-banker,
responded to calls next His exact Ian
eNage was this: Il don't want to be
called upon, for have kept out Of this
whole trouble II was t. express my
opinion would say that 1 wouldn't al
low negro in the town. | won't har-
Dor them in any form or about my
place. I've no use for them This
Short speech was cheered and applauled
until il seemed that the house would
fnll The meeting then adjourned,
after passing a vote Of thanks to the
board for its 'manliness in acting as
the meetiDgrequested.
Isn't it evident that, as we said in
our last issue, the man who should
come out against mixed schools would
be elected Governor of Ohio this fall ?
Let POWELL come out on that side and
Foraker on the other, and POWELL
would be elected.
The Providence Journal, which,
though it is the leading Republican
paper in Rhode Island, We have had
frequent occasion to compliment,
towns up" in the following candid
paragraphs:
"Ohio is struggling with the ques
ton OF the co-education of the white
and black races, and Is giving evidence.
not needed to aid the judgment of the
intelligent observer, that there is a SEN
hment sometimes called prejudice of
the white race as against social equal
intercourse with negroes, and that this
feeling is not confined to the South.
1t is not a question, it must be remem-
bered. of political rights /; it is a natu-
raj, ineradicable instinct which is not
at all affected by the fact of Frede-
rick Douglass.
Gin Ohio there is one negro to forty
whites, and the last Legislature re-
pealed the law requiring separate
schools for white and colored children.
In one town at the demand of the peo-
pie the School Board ordered the CO.
lored children back 10 their own school,
and in another the board has closed the
schools indefinitely, while in another
the colored children are refused ad-
mittance TO the schools. Here in
Rhode Island colored children attend
the public schools; yet il they were a
third of the number OF pupils there